NIFS Phase II (OT) Checklist

To demonstrate technical feasibility in your proposal, and to speed
acceptance of your phase II file, you may wish to consider the
following checklist. When setting up your programme in the OT, please
download and look at the example observations in the OT libraries.

Here is the NIFS checklist
for Phase II, of which most, but not all, are NIFS-specific. For
more information on most of these questions, consult the NIFS OT Details pages (along with the general instrument pages).

General

Have you included concise and informative notes in your OT file to aid the observer?

Have you prioritized all your observations?

Instrument configuration:

Did you choose an appropriate grating and filter?

Did you choose an appropriate readout mode?

Are the focal plane mask and imaging mirror set correctly (for normal observation, FPM='clear' and Mirror='out')?

Is the position angle correctly defined?

Guide stars:

Choose only one guide star (the brightest in guider FOV) per wavefront sensor you are using.